Toy vehicle



June 19,1928. 1,674,272

I L. M. ZAN-DER TOY VEHICLE Filed Aug. '4, 1927 INVENTOR [#4 ATTORNEYPatented June 19, 1928. I

UhllTEfi STATES LEO MORTON ZANDER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

TOY VEHICLE.

Application filed August 1927.

My: invention relates to improvements in toy vehicles. I

One of he ob ects of my invention 1S to provide novel means for steeringa vehicle.

A further object of my invention is to provide novel guard means bywhich the occupant of the vehicle may stand thereon without. danger offalling sidcwise therefrom.

A further object of my invention is to provide a. novel vehicle of thekind described, which is simple, cheap to make, durable. not liable toget out of order, which is easily operable by a small child, and whichwill afford amusement to the operator.

The novel features of my invention are hereinafter fully described andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates the preferred embodimentof my invention,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my improved vehicle.

Fig. 2 is a top viewof the same.

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the same.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view through one of thehand holds and parts connected therewith.

Fig. 5 is a. vertical sectional View through the steering post and partsconnected therewith.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts in the differentviews.

The vehicle is provided with a base member which may comprise ahorizontal board 1 to the forward end of which is attached the rear endof a fo3wardly and upwardly extending central bar 2.

A tubular steering post has its lower end fastened to the bar 2. saidpost being desig nated by 3, and having fastened to it a bar at to whichis fastened centrally the trans verse portion 5 of a U shaped guardingand guiding member, the arms 6 of which extend horizontally rearwardlyand then downwardly, their lower ends being fastened to the board 1 atthe rear end thereof and at opbosite sides respectively of a notch 7 inthe rear end and center of the board 1. v

The arms 6 serve as guard rails for keeping a person standing on theboard 1 from falling sidewise therefrom. They further serve as guidingmeans for two hand holds 8. which are tubular and respectivelyreciprocative on the horizontal portions of the arms 6.

For supporting the rear end of the support comprising the board 1, bar2, post 3 Serial. No. 210,611.

and U shaped member 5 6, there is fastened to the under side of theboard 1 a horizontal arched axle 9 on the ends of which are mounted tworotatable carrying wheels 10.

F or supporting the front end of the support, and also for steering thesame, there is provided a carrying member which may comp-rise a stceringwheel 1 1, which is rotatably mounted on and between two arms 12 of anoscillative member 13 which is oscillatively mounted in and which,extends above the post 8. Said member 13,- above the post 3 has a squareportion 1 1 which is fitted in av square holein a cross bar 15, theupper end of the member 13 being threaded and having fitted. on it a nut16 which bears against the'cross bar 15, the latter resting on ashoulder 17 at the lower end of thesquare portion 14:.

Two rods 18 have respectively to two studs 19 provided respectively ontwo caps 20 with which the front ends of the hand holds 8 arerespectively provided. The front ends of the rods 18 are respectivelypivoted to the cross bar 15 at opposite sides of the member 13.

In operating the vehicle, the operator stands on the board 1 between thearms 6 and their rear ends pivoted grasps the'hand holds 8 with hishands.

hold. This will swing the cross bar 15 by means of the rods 18, thusturning the wheel 11 to the right by means of the member 13 and its arms12.

To steer the vehicle to the left, the hand holds are moved in theopposite directions from that just described,

To run straight ahead, the hand holds are moved to positions in the sametransverse vertical plane, thereby holding the wheel 11 in the straightahead position.

I do not limit my invention to the structure shown and described, asmany modifications, within the scope of the appended claims, may be madewithout departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim is 1. In a toy vehicle, a support, for a person, having asteering post and having a U shaped guiding member fastened at itsmidson, having a tubular steering post and having a U shaped guidingmember attached to said post and to said support, a member oscillativein and supporting said post, a cross bar fastened to said oscillativemember, a steering member supporting and movable with said oscillativemember, two hand holds respectively reciprocative on, the arms of said Ushaped guiding member, and two rods respectively comiected at one set ofends to said handholds and connected at their other ends to said crossbar at opposite sides re spectively oi said oscillative member.

- 3. In a toy vehicle, a support, for aper son, comprising a basemember, a tubular steering post on said base member, and a U shapedguardmember fastened at its trans verse portion to said post and having itsarms extend ng rearwardly and downwardly and fastened at their lowerends to said base,

a member oscillative in andsupporting said post, a cross bar fastened tosaid oscillative member, a steering supporting member mounted on saidoscillative member and sup-- porting said oscillative member, two handholds respectively reciprocative on the arms of said U shaped member,and two rods re-- spectively connected to, said hand holdsand connectedto said cross bar at opposite sides respectively of said oscillativemember.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

LEO MORTON ZANDER.

